He lead up to this masterpiece with a free EP series titled Art Dealer Chic, with three volumes. The first one included the previously mentioned Adorn, and two other songs, Gravity and That I Do. Each of these are amazing in my opinion and the other volumes are albeit still good, they don't match up to the first one.

Regardless check out all three if you can. Volume 2 has a song that I personally identify with called "All".

His debut album "Channel Orange" features amazing song-writing plus his signature voice cascading throughout every track.

My personal favorite is "Crack Rock" where he sings about the drug through the eyes of a user. The social commentary and emotion he put into the song is a testament to his skills.

I cannot find a full album on Youtube, but listen to each song on this album. It's amazing.

Third:

Elle Varner

I don't seen anyone talking about this chick. This cute, quirky girl has an amazing voice that pull you into whatever she's signing about.

I absolutely love the way that her songs are composed, they feel fresh even though the narrative is the same as millions of songs from the past. That's astonishingly hard to do.

She released her debut album this summer like Frank Ocean did, but in August. Perfectly Imperfect got one grammy nomination for the her song "Refill" but I feel like this album and her work as a whole gets massively overlooked.

Before her album, she released a mixtape called Conversational Lush which has my favorite song of her's "Soundproof Room".

Michael was making music for damn near two decades before he started dropping CLASSIC material and you trying to tell me that these people are just above average because they don't measure up?

Shut that shit up.

Please.

I know who Bilal is obviously, present his album with links and info so that ISH can get some good shit in their playlists. Stop being elitist and use "links". It's not that hard.

I made a thread about Bilal when the album dropped 2 weeks back, and got one reply from Al Thorton on some BS.

And Mike was dropping classics in the early 70s.

They are above avg because they are, that's not a bad thing. They are not even on an R.Kelly or Gerald LeVert level. That's not a bad thing, they are the best contemporary R&B artist out now. Better than every one else, but when you look deeper to the Bilal's, Raphael Saadiq's, Van Hunt's, Robert Glasper, they got some work to do.

I made a thread about Bilal when the album dropped 2 weeks back, and got one reply from Al Thorton on some BS.

And Mike was dropping classics in the early 70s.

They are above avg because they are, that's not a bad thing. They are not even on an R.Kelly or Gerald LeVert level. That's not a bad thing, they are the best contemporary R&B artist out now. Better than every one else, but when you look deeper to the Bilal's, Raphael Saadiq's, Van Hunt's, Robert Glasper, they got some work to do.

Of course but they are just starting out, these guys are fresh out of the gate. Miguel's debut was 2 and a half years ago, the other two just came out last year(no pun intended).

Give them time and enjoy what they have to offer. People don't have to drop legendary shit in order to be appreciated. Their music is appealing and well done, I'm entertained by it. It doesn't have to be Off The Wall quality or Purple Rain for me to applaud their efforts.